The smoke has dispersed and all shadows are gone, the autumn cold
Shang Liyan, a talented painter from the Art Academy, is quiet and distant, using his paintbrush to cover up his inner scars. Seven years ago, her father, an upright university professor, fell to his death after being involved in an academic scandal, leaving behind countless mysteries. She grew up with secrets and loneliness until she met Mo Yingqiu on the university campus.
Mo Yingqiu, a top student in the law school, the disciplinary director of the student union, and the son of the school director, looks cold and harsh on the outside, but hides an unhealable childhood trauma in his heart. His mother died young and his father was strict. He was used to building high walls with rules, until he discovered that Shang Liyan's sketchbook was full of his own figure - those paintings actually overlapped with the little girl who handed him daisies in the rain seven years ago.
A campus art festival forced the two to get closer. She is casual and free, while he is rigorous and restrained, but in the collisions, they glimpse the gaps in each other's souls. The memory of Chengnan Park was awakened, and daisies became their tacit code. However, when Shang Liyan accidentally discovered that his father's death was related to the Mo Group, and that Mo Yingqiu's family was the driving force behind the tragedy, trust collapsed.
He tried to make amends, and she couldn't forgive him. In the torn between truth and emotion, Mo Yingqiu risked everything to find evidence, just to give her an explanation. On the eve of graduation, a car accident cut off all possibilities. Before the hospital bed, he handed her the blood-stained USB flash drive, which contained irrefutable evidence that her father had forged data and threatened her father.
"I'm sorry... I couldn't accompany you until autumn." He finally stopped breathing in her arms.
A year later, Shang Liyan held a painting exhibition "The Pre-Autumn Period" in the park where they first met. The last unfinished sketch showed the two people with gray hair. Daisies are blooming on the edge of the frame, and the rain has stopped in summer forever.
Concept: The impermanence of fate and the eternal despair of not being able to love